TrojanDropper.FakeSpamFighter

Details

Summary

A fake Lycos screensaver was distributed in e-mails on December 6th, 2004. The executable
file attached to those e-mails was supposed to be the famous Lycos' 'Make Love Not
Spam' screensaver that was attacking sites advertised by spammers (this project is
now closed). Instead the file attached to those e-mails was a self-extracting RAR
archive designed to drop a Perfect Keylogger components to a hard drive.

Removal

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Technical Details

Perfect Keylogger is an application to monitor what keys a user presses and to save
this data to a file. The primary objective of such tools is to spy against users of
affected computers.

Detection

Detection for this malware was published on December 6th, 2004 in the following F-Secure
Anti-Virus updates:

Detection Type: PC
Database: 2004-12-06_03

Description Details: Alexey Podrezov, December 8th, 2004;

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